dev/random warning on 10-STABLE after r292122 up till r292855

[Mark Saad]

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Peter Jeremy <peter at rulingia.com> wrote:

> On 2016-Jan-04 16:44:49 -0500, Mark Saad <nonesuch at longcount.org> wrote:
> >On boot dmesg logs the following warning not seen on 10.2-RELEASE amd64.
> >
> >random device not loaded; using insecure entropy
>
> When I first noticed this, I investigated and worked out that it's
> related to how the random device initialises itself and its data and
> entropy sources.  In particular, it reflects the state of the random
> device at that point in time, not at any later point when random data
> is actually requested.
>
> I agree that the wording of this message could unnecessarily alarm a
> sysadmin and think it could be done better.  IMHO, this sort of
> alamist message should only be output if there is no decent entropy
> source available when the random device is unblocked.
>
> --
> Peter Jeremy
>

Peter
 I agree it looks like its not really a big deal; what I cant find is what
changed to make this even print out. The commits for this warning are from
a long time ago. Off hand they are from 2014 or 2012. There were no changes
to sys/dev/random in as much time; so I cant figure out what changed to
make this even print out.


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